We’ve sent out briefing packs for front line staff this week, which includes information about the release of GOV.UK and posters to put up for colleagues. The communications team also hosted the final pre-release workshop for government departments

The team working on detailed guidance for GOV.UK have been getting some of the final content in place ahead of launch, as have the editorial team

Browser testing has been continuing at breakneck pace, with bugs and errors being called out for the development team in time for release on the 17th

The IDA team’s work was covered in a few papers, and you can read a bit more from Steve Wreyford about that here

The Policy and Engagement Team have been working with departments on the draft of the cross-Government Digital Strategy. They’ve also been delivering workshops and facilitator events to support delivery of Departmental Digital Strategies

The Innovation and Services team have been busy producing data-matching pilots for upcoming projects and building tools to help process some data from the Cabinet Office

Liam Maxwell, deputy CIO for government, popped into GDS for a short talk following his presentation at the O’Reilly Strata conference on Monday

and on Tuesday, Adam Bailin from the Performance and Delivery team met with 25 transactional services owners from throughout government. As part of that he presented a video interview with Craig Sullivan, a product manager with over a decade’s experience in the e-commerce sector, touching on things like agile and user-centred design. You can watch it in full below